Epigram ‘n Aphorism Samwiches

Time-Wrinked

Taboo Words - 1st

Time-Wrinkled

From her nightstand, emptied of cough drops, tissues,
reading glasses, and snapshots of a little man, came
a scent of old leather, time-wrinkled and bound.
The creased cover moaned gently, as I pried to peer
at her name scribed gently as a tattooed heart.

I crawled upon a cool mattress like the child
to warm under quilt, snapped on the overhead lamp.
The key to open a secret door I alone clutched.
The years waited upon me to return and saunter inside.

Beneath reality, eyes slipped past the donned jacket
to inhale an inviting aroma, hear crisp leaves bend
by my mindful hand, as a bright adventure for dry eyes
began. Her messages inhaled like forgotten dreams.

Like a talisman gripped, so too my mind, the decoder.
Minutes melded into hours, to days and beyond before
shadows from an inspecting sun reappeared about
the framed panes of winter glass, pinching me awake.

My heart wants more, my childhood, my dreams back.
Even just the touch of her soft-worn hand upon mine,
as we explored dank caves for treasures guarded
by pirates with surly lips and gleaming broadswords.

Perhaps, another classic, another day in her room.


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prose-y freeverse

5.28.21 final edit

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May, 2021 PROMPT:
'LOST IN A BOOK'

taboo words:
story
book
page
world
character
or any derivatives